Call For Software Projects

We would like to hear from UK-based researchers, working on software projects in the audio and music field, who feel their work would benefit from assistance or expertise in order to improve its long-term sustainability and reusability.

If you have examples of any of the following, we would be interested in hearing from you:

Software developed by you or your group that you want to improve the sustainability of
Draft or prototype software that you would like to make more widely available (e.g. taking MATLAB code to native plugins or applications)
Research work comprising software, data, and potential paper publications, that you feel could become truly reproducible research with some assistance or advice
Software from other researchers, that you wish to use in your own work but that is difficult to get going

We may be able to offer you:

Targeted advice: our team comes to visit you and helps you determine how to take your software forward
Training and advice in using tools and facilities to your best advantage for software management, testing, publication and dissemination
Collaboration on a short targeted project
Publicity for your reproducible work and associated software

Eligibility

This Call is open to members of the audio and music research community in UK institutions eligible for EPSRC support.

How to apply

Please send the following details by email to info@soundsoftware.ac.uk, with the subject "Call for Software Projects: [title of your project]".

Title and description of the software-related project
Known technical details, e.g. language, target platforms, licensing etc
Current state of development of any software involved (complete, under development, partially complete)
Assistance you are seeking
How you believe this work could promote high-quality research in the UK audio and music research community.

Deadline

The deadline for consideration in this call is Friday, 31st May 2013.

Evaluation

Projects will be considered on the basis of appropriateness in terms of our ability to provide assistance, with consideration for resources available, and potential impact of the project to the UK audio and music research community.

SoundSoftware is an EPSRC-funded project to support the development and use of software, data and metadata to enable high-quality research in the UK audio and music research community.

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SoundSoftware 2014: Videos now available!

The SoundSoftware 2014 workshop, our third annual workshop on software and data in audio and music research, was just as enjoyable as the previous two. Because so much research in this field ends up being expressed through software, a software workshop turns out to be all about the means by which research becomes useful and relevant to people other than the original researchers—fertile ground for interesting and thought-provoking talks.

The workshop videos are now available online at http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/soundsoftware2014, so if you weren't able to make it in person, catch up here!

Our third annual one-day workshop on Software and Data for Audio and Music Research takes place on the 8th of July 2014 at Queen Mary, University of London. The workshop includes talks on issues such as robust software development for audio and music research, reproducible research in general, management of research data, and open access. Read more here, clear your calendar, and register now!